Summer Game Fest 2026 Highlights Part 1
Six One Indie Showcase, AG French Direct, Indie Dev Showcase, Thinky Direct, Insider Gaming Showcase, Shovel Direct, Indie Quest, The MIX Summer Game Showcase, Horror Game Awards Showcase, and Best Indie Games Summer Showcase
I’m a bit late this year, but hey it’s better late than never. I honestly forgot that these happen in June so I was actually playing Even If Tempest while these were going on. And then I had to play demos during Steam Next Fest. A part of me was going to skip it this year, but I thought it would be weird if I skipped it after six years (I’m including the year I did it for SoQ). So here I am! As always, these are based on games I thought were interesting and I encourage you to check out the stream yourself (which I will include a link to!).
Six One Indie Showcase
- The Well’s Blessing
- Hips N Noses
- Rollergirl
- Death Pong
- Vale’s Echo
- Abide
- Sucker for Love: Crush Landing
- Deep Pixel Melancholy
- Rain98
- Blocks for Babies
- Treetopians
- Forklift Flowerpot
- Please Insert Disc
- Prison of Husks
- Cutout Village
- Kaiju Cleanup
- Punch Lunch: Foodtruck Fighter
- Necrowave
- Sloppy Forgeries
- Muri: Wildwoods
- B-E-E-T-L-E: Be Right Back!
- Grave Seasons
- The Florist
- Anomalith
AG French Direct
- Mirage: Miracle Quest
- Beware of the Cartographer!
- The Granny Detective Society
- Crushed In Time
- Storebound
- Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
- Silent Planet – Elegy of a Dying World
- Stardream
- Looking for Fael
- Edge of Memories
- Perceptum
- Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell
- The Witch’s Bakery
Indie Dev Showcase
- Alpha Nomos
- Appetite of the Abyss
- Better Than Dead
- Dash Dot Die
- No Vacancy Tonight
- UvsU: You Vs You
- Wise Guys
Thinky Direct
- Colorbound
- Stretchmancer
- Monomoon
- Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
- Compress(Space)
- Hello Again
- Bulbo’s Belief System
- Lock In
- Mimic Meadows
- Some Puzzles
- Map Map – A Game About Maps
- He Who Watches
Insider Gaming Showcase
- Smash ‘n Grab
- Take that Mainstage!
- Dicetris
- Rusthaven
- Don’t Lose Aggro
- End of Ember
- Hope in the City
- Waters of Ragnarok
- Bassai-Dai
Shovel Direct
- Lavender’s: The One Stop Potion Shop
- Ham Hole: Fill The Hole In You
- Mingo’s Boring Room
- Gabha
- Rodent Rooms
- Bargoer
- Pigeon’s Untitled Screenplay
- Maitolaikky
- FBI Test Program
Indie Quest
The MIX Summer Game Showcase
- Oh My Doug!
- Monsters Are Coming!
- Isle Goblin
- Twinkle’s Galactic Tour
- Neighborhoods
- Meadgard
- Husk Protocol
- Eldor’idle
- Pixel Washer
- Pale Tide
- Reka
- Cordura
- Paperhead
- Feed It
- Hands Over
- Echograph
- Kumarn -The Wandering Spirit-
- Out Fishing
- Un:Me
- Beyond the Dark: Nightwatch
- Tenebris Somnia
- Dioxide
- Wonderfall
- My Otter Friends
- Wilderings: The Lost Spring
- Edenfall: Legacy of the First Wardens
- Entropy
- Animal Game
- Kidbash: Super Legend
- Ballgame
- Well Dweller
Horror Game Awards Showcase
- Donut Panic
- Dead Watch
- Ultrasound
- Last Chance Market
- The Skin Stapler
- House 2
- Sisters of Solitude
- Silvanis
- Protocol Non-Human
- Solace Creek
- Tic-Tac: Twelve O’Clock
- Lurks Within Walls
- The Cave Diver
- The Twilight Project
- The Hambagu Shop
- Don’t Fret
- Name of the Will
- Liminal Point
- Silver Pines
- Alchemortis
- Don’t Let It Starve
- Paper Bleed
- Gretel & Hansel
- Moonlight Motel
- Murder Meet Cute
- Farsight
- Encryptid
- Exorcist Hotline
- Deadly Rehearsal
- Mr. Magpie’s Harmless Card Game
- Becrowned
- Mourning Tide
- Nightmare House
Best Indie Games Summer Showcase
- Witch The Showdown
- Hank Shaw: Animal Detective
- Shark Dentist
- Fantasy Network
- Haunted Paws
- Over the Hill
- All Our Broken Parts
- Jigrift
- Starfinder Afterlight
- Clawsome
- Tombwater
- My Little Cafe Nightmare
- Rhythm Hotel
- Engine of Sin
- Ravenswatch
- Anima Song from the Abyss
- Cozy Marbles
- Clerks & Quirks
- Ramen Shop Simulator
- Derelikt
- 4X4 in a Furniture Store
- Peng Pong
- Space Revolver
- Sorry, My King
- Uncanny Valley Checkpoint
- Dystopicon
- Five More Minutes
- Monk Took Book
- Signy & Mind Against All Gods
- Hyperwired
- Minikin
- Security 51
- Swan Song
- Deadly Trick
- Odd Town
- Furyball: Rogue Revenge
- The Milgram Experiment
- Voyage Router
- Lost & Found
- Hubert
- Death at Fleming Manor
- Never’s End
- Boreal Enebrae Act 0
- Spooker: Spooky Snooker
- Pegs x Stickers
- Night Hike
- Stip
- From Basement With Love
- Time to Wake Up
- Connected Clue
- Ministry of Order
- Bobls
- Grindworm
- Kalanoro
- The Piper of Dawn
- T.W.I.R.L.
- Curse Chapter: Dawnthief
- Valkyrie Saga Coming to Switch
- Cardburners
- Clockwork Ambrosia
- Fallen Tear: The Ascension
- Choose Your Own Alternative
- Back in the Swamp
- Packing Life
- Kotama & Academy Citadel
- Barda
- Kebab Chefs
- Duck Side of the Moon
- Dark Pals
- Gnaw
- Biofactory
- Always in Mind
- Impirical Evidence
- The Player Who Can’t Level Up
- Detour
- Glintseeker Island
- A Story of Questions
- Escape the Riddlerock Ruins
- Quiet Express: Cabin 909
- Devil Lift
- Ravenstar
- Game is Full of Bugs
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